The web is still the wild west and because of the unregulated, anonymous, nature of the Inter
this article in Wired about one of the countless companies spriniging up to game social media sites like Digg. One of the biggest challenges Digg will face is becoming absolutely irrelevant as it’s pages are increasingly filled with […]

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Wow, did I have the rug pulled out from under me today.
If you remember the Simpson’s episode: “Bart vs. Australia”, you might remember a scene where the toilet in the American Embassy is portrayed as requiring an elaborate machine to reverse the “Autralian flow” to the familiar “American flow” (Homer proudly and tearfully sings “My […]

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Companies have had varying degrees of success in implementing feedback systems that allow users to transact in a “trusted environment,” with eBay arguably leading the way. However, for a feedback system to be truly transportable and have any realistic kind of meaning, the basic rating mechanisms must be compatible… if not exactly the same.
This problem […]

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The upcoming release of NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) for the KDE Linux desktop will help users organize the masses of information stored on their hard drives and perform intelligent, semantic searches. From the article:
“For example, a Semantic Desktop will store the relationship between a file saved on the […]

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The emerging ideas that (ugh) “Web 3.0″ is going to materialize into the true Berners-Lee vision of a semantic, intelligent web is both an incredibly promising and partially terrifying prospect
Even the most advanced computer science has yet to truly master the simplest of human performed tasks. Thus the existence of Amazon’s, IMHO ridiculous, Mechanical […]

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